Here are the Week 6 Ontario-Honda Section V Football offensive and defensive players of the week, which are selected based on the input of coaches.

The Democrat and Chronicle staff has no input on the player of the week or year awards:

OFFENSE

Class AA: Jake Zembiec (Aquinas). Sophomore quarterback completed eight of 13 passing attempts for 146 yards, including three touchdowns. Zembiec also ran for a touchdown during a 39-10 win over McQuaid.

Class B: Phil Tack (Newark). The Reds are 5-1 after Tack completed 10 of 15 passing attempts for 273 yards with three touchdowns. The senior carried 11 times for 75 yards, including two touchdowns. He accounted for 348 yards of offense during a 45-14 win over Palmyra-Macedon.

Class D: Tim McCulley (Batavia Notre Dame). Senior quarterback completed 14 of 20 passing attempts for 226 yards with six touchdowns against Finney/Northstar. He also ran for a touchdown, as he broke the school’s single-season record for touchdowns (24).

DEFENSE

Class AA: Vernon Harmon (East High). Senior linebacker made 10 solo tackles, recovered then returned a fumble 28 yards for a touchdown and returned an interception for 22 yards for another touchdown during a commanding win over Franklin.

Class A: Marcus Davis (Wilson). Senior defensive end had 10 tackles, including two for a loss, during a 24-10 win over Edison/Monroe. Davis also had 2.5 quarterback sacks.

Class B: Justin Patterson (Newark). Sophomore linebacker had 11 tackles, including five solos. He also had a sack for and broke up a pass during Newark’s win over Palmyra-Macedon.

Class C: Andy Underhill (Elba/Byron Bergen). Senior linebacker had 22 tackles, 14 solo. Underhill also forced two fumbles, recovered a fumble and sacked the quarterback once during a loss to Attica.

Class DD: Dan Welch (Avon). Senior linebacker had a total of 11 tackles, four solo, and also broke a pass during a win over Hornell. Welch also returned a punt 35 yards for a touchdown.

Class D: Christian Hollister (Perry). The 5-foot-6 junior linebacker had 19 total tackles, nine solo, and forced a fumble during a 34-26 win over Letchworth.

There is another realignment of Monroe County football, but the changes are less than drastic.

All of the Class AA schools are in the league’s Division I, with the exception of Penfield. The divisions are based more on student enrollment and not on geography. Penfield is in Division II to help the league balance schedules and to open slots for non-league games.

“It’s the most fair way, setting up by B.E.D.S numbers (enrollment figures for grades 9-11 from the previous year),” Greece Olympia football coach Tim Hill said. “As long as you are playing teams in your class, that’s what you are looking for., it’s the only way you can do it really, especially in football.

Football playoffs: Most of the Section V football tournament semifinal games will be played at area high schools this coming season.

While the Class AA and A semifinals remain at Sahlen’s Stadium near downtown Rochester, the Class B, C, DD and D games in the same round are being moved in an effort to help reduce costs.

Penfield, Webster Thomas, East Irondequoit Eastridge and Caledonia-Mumford are among the schools that could host sectional semifinals Nov. 1-2.

“We are going to utilize some other venues,” Section V football committee chairman Dick Cerone said. “With the smaller schools, a couple of thousands of people would be a phenomenal crowd.

“We can cut it (expense) back a little.”

Cerone said that the last time Section V football semifinals were played at more than one venue, outside of weather-related changes, was during the late 1970s or early 1980s.

“Now we have stadiums that want to do it.”

Heard around Section V: Wilson football defensive back/linebacker Kemani Howard received his first scholarship offer from Wagner College, a Football Championship Subdivision school or what was called Division I-AA, on Staten Island. At 5-feet-11 and 185 pounds, Howard is likely to play defensive back in college. … A regular-season game to watch Oct. 5, Pittsford vs. Aquinas at Saint John Fisher College. There is a sense that Monroe County teams have been less than enthusiastic about scheduling Aquinas, a private school, so this meeting is a good sign.

Buffalo Saint Joseph’s routinely placed eight defenders within five yards of the line of scrimmage, a tactic to shut down the run. When Wilson starter at quarterback left the game after the first series with a health issue, McCullough stepped in and became at least the 10th player in Section V history to throw five touchdown passes during a game.

Mortier said that McCullough was expected to take snaps at quarterback against Buffalo St. Joseph’s. One of McCullough’s touchdown passes went for 91 yards. It’s unclear whether that is a record.

McCullough’s five touchdown passes and yardage are enough to place him on Section V Football’s list of records, if it receives documentation from Wilson coaches.

“He did a lot of good things,” Mortier said. “How many 90-yard touchdowns are there out there?”

R-H lineman may be out: The Rush-Henrietta Royal Comets, No. 1 in the Democrat and Chronicle Section V Large Schools football coaches poll, certainly was proud of its win over No. 4 Hilton last Saturday.

Their celebration was enthusiastic to a point, since senior lineman James Richardson had to leave the game with a injury to his right knee,

Former Kendall coach Jim Sauberan, shown here at the 2008 state wrestling tournament in Rochester, is being praised by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame this month.

according to coach Joe Montesano.

Richardson landed awkwardly after he jumped during a play. The 2011 Monroe County league all-star plays on the Rush-Henrietta offensive and defensive lines.

Montesano called the injury a big loss for the Royal Comets, even beyond the team’s matchup against No. 3 Pittsford on Saturday.

Hall of Fame-bound: Former Kendall coach Jim Sauberan has been selected for recognition by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Okla.

Sauberan’s lifetime achievements in the sport will be acknowledged Sept. 16 during a banquet in Syracuse. The College at Brockport graduate coached at Kendall for 35 years, where his teams built a record of 289-180-5.

This upcoming high school season will be his third as a volunteer assistant at Kendall, on the staff of Michael Bourne. An athletic director at Kendall for 15 years, Sauberan has also served on Section V wrestling committee for more than 20 years.

“It’s almost like we’ve done this exact same practice 20 times already,” Mortier said on Aug. 13, the first day practice session totals counted toward player eligibility this fall. “All summer we go every Tuesday and Thursday.

“The level of commitment is just a lot more for the kids.”

No one will confuse Section V football with areas that have spring practices like colleges, but check out the Aquinas offseason schedule.

Weightlifting for the 2012 season, three times a week as a team, began in December. Aquinas had a team camp in pads three weeks ago, that lasted five days. The following week, the Little Irish were one of nine teams at the Westside Football Camp at Gates Chili. Players wore helmets and pads above the waist for four days.

Aquinas also sent backs and receivers to the two-day 7-on-7 tournament at Saint John Fisher College,

A view along the line of scrimmage at Aquinas

while others went to the four-day Greater Rochester Offensive & Defensive Line Camp at their school.

“It’s a job almost,” 2011 All-Greater Rochester co-Player of the Year Billy Lombardi said. “We can come right out and go full speed on the first day.”

Mortier’s Wilson Wildcats talked about formations they expected to see in their opener against Buffalo Saint Joseph’s.

“We’re able to do 7-on-7 today. The first day of camp eight years ago, we would’ve been teaching kids how to get into a proper stance, not that we’re not now, but it’s just different.”

The first day players can wear a full uniform, pads above and below the waist, and play full contact is Saturday, Aug. 18.

Your pick for swimming/diving’s best : Information about how to submit a nomination for the Section V Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame is found at www.section5swim.com.

This year’s induction class, which will be honored on Aug. 17, pushes the number of members to 105. The Webster Aquatic Center donated space for display of the hall of fame plaques, according to Section V Swimming and Diving Hall of fame committee member Charlie Dean.

This is the first summer in 14 years in which Scott Nugent and Greg Pelletier are not working together to prepare a high school football team for an upcoming season.

Pelletier, Brockport’s coach for 10 seasons, died at the age of 39 in February. The Spencerport native and Aquinas graduate coached the Blue Devils last fall, as he tried to handle the effects of bladder cancer.

Scott Nugent, left in the gray shirt, and Greg Pelletier, in the black shirt, coached together on the Brockport football coaching staff for 13 years.

Nugent was approved by the Brockport school board as Pelletier’s replacement this past spring.

“As we start three-a-day (practices) it’s going to start to become tougher,” Nugent, 42, said. “It’s going to be during meetings and hanging out in-between sessions when you will really notice.”

Another challenge for those around Brockport football is to figure out a way to honor Pelletier without an attachment of gloom to the season.

“It’s still a game,” Nugent said.

Here are some things that the Blue Devils have lined up:

* A large rock with a plaque to honor Pelletier will be unveiled before the team’s first home game on Sept. 14. The rock will sit along a path the Blue Devils use to enter the field.

* Nugent hopes that Blue Devils can wear a half-inch to an inch-long yellow “P” decal on the back of their helmets during the season.

* The tribute is to include a moment of silence, and at least one additional gesture by the program that officials would like to keep secret until the home opener.

Pelletier is among this year’s Brockport Wall of Honor induction class to be honored on Sept. 21. His record of 50 wins, 37 losses gives Pelletier the top all-time winning percentage among Brockport coaches, .574. Brockport athletic director Chris Bourne is all but certain that Pelletier’s win total is No. 1 all-time, more certain that is the case since the Blue Devils joined the Monroe County league during the 1970s.

Nugent played for the Blue Devils until he graduated from Brockport in 1987. The State University of New York College at Cortland graduate lives in Greece with his wife and three children, who are 7, 10 and 13 years old.

This is Nugent’s first varsity head coaching position. He spent two yearsas an assistant at The College of Brockport and three at Newark. He joined the Brockport Blue Devils staff in 1998, and met Pelletier one year later.

Pelletier followed Scott Hopsicker as Brockport’s varsity football coach in 2000.

“He did the offense and I did the defeane ever since then,” Nugent said.

Evan Harasta

Play ball at Albany: Evan Harasta, the catcher at Webster Thomas the last four seasons, decided he wants to play college baseball at State

University of New York at Albany.

Division I baseball programs rarely give full scholarships, but Harasta said he did receive a partial from Albany.

Harasta, who was selected to the 2011 and 2012 All-Greater Rochester teams, batted .379 with 5 home runs and 20 RBI last spring.

Where are they now?: Asia Henry, a 2009 Wilson graduate, finished eighth in the women’s 800-meter dash during the North America Central America Caribbean Under 23 Championships in Mexico last weekend.

Asia Henry

The track and field meet was the first international event for the SUNY at Buffalo junior, although Henry did attempt to make the Jamaican National team headed to London for the Summer Olympics.

“I have no doubt in my mind that I can beat them,” Henry said about the Jamaicans who finished ahead of her during the island nation’s trials.

“A lot of kids wouldn’t be able to go to a $25 camp,” Iglesia said. “For some, $25 might as well be $100.”

That’s difficult for former high school coaches like Iglesia and others to sit and accept. Their response is to put together camps where expenses are reduced much as possible, perhaps beyond a capability to turn a profit.

The Coach Iglesia’s Basketball Camp was attended by 80 boys and 59 girls, all of whom were invited and expected to pay nothing.

Former area high school all-stars like James “Mook” Reaves and Nigel Moore, who now play professionally, provided some of the on-court instruction. The campers also were told by Syracuse University guard Brandon Triche some of the things they will need to do off the court in order to extend the days they can play basketball.

Most of the campers were from the Rochester City School District or residents of the city of Rochester, but athletes from Rush-Henrietta, Bishop Kearney and McQuaid were among those who attended sessions at East High or Wilson.

Syracuse University guard Brandon Triche talks with local high school basketball players during Coach Iglesia's basketball camp June 25-29.

The G.D.A.Y. Skill Development Camp during the final week of June had a similiar blueprint, but was geared toward boys 8 to 15 years old. There was no charge for Rochester City School Distict students, $100 for others.

This was the second year for the camp (www.gdaycamps.com) run by Gray and Oseni, who were Democrat and Chronicle All-Greater Rochester players at Bishop Kearney and School of the Arts, respectively. Iglesia coached Oseni at School of the Arts.

Here are at least two more camps in the area that want to get the word out that there are upcoming sessions. In some cases, there is a fee:

Next Level Hoops Basketball Development and the Rochester Police Athletic League, clinic open to boys in the city of Rochester ages 11-16, July 14 10 a.m. – noon at Saint Monica’s Church Gym, 841 Genesee Street. Free. Parents must register children. Call Ray Smith at 585-271-5726.

Nick Doktor, an attackman at Irondequoit who has scored 118 goals in part of three varsity seasons, was named one of the nation’s top high school players in the senior class today by Under Armour.

Doktor was chosen to play for the North team when All-Americans face-off at the Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic June 30 in Towson, Md. by a panel from Inside Lacrosse Magazine.

The University of Pennsylvania recruit and his Irondequoit teammates play at Fairport, 5 p.m. May 17. The Irondequoit (14-1) versus Fairport (15-1) game is a matchup of the top two ranked teams in the Democrat and Chronicle’s Section V Coaches Poll.

Fairport is 18th and Irondequoit 20th in the ESPN/POWERADE Fab 50 national rankings. Both teams are No. 2 in the New York State Sportswriters Association state rankings, with Fairport behind only Chaminade in Class A and Irondequoit in back of Garden City in Class B.

Championship day in city: Baseball and softball teams from the Rochester City School District complete their multi-day tournaments to determine who is No. 1 among the city ballclubs tomorrow.

The city baseball final has No. 2 seed East (12-5) facing top seed Wilson (13-6), 4 p.m. at Genesee Valley Park. Wilson has two one-run wins over East this season. There are also three consolation games on the same day: No. 5 Monroe vs. No. 3 School of the Arts at Cobbs Hill Park, No. 6 Franklin at No. 4 Charlotte and No. 8 Edison at No. 7 Freddie Thomas, all at 4 p.m.

Wilson’s softball team also has reached its city tournament final, 4 p.m. tomorrow at Genesee Valley Park, where the No. 1 Wildcats (15-1) face No. 2 School of the Arts (13-4).

Veronica Arnone, a junior pitcher at Wilson, should strikeout out her 500th batter during the final. Arnone had 499 through Tuesday.

Jeff DiVeronica has covered Section V for the Democrat and Chronicle since 1994. A native of Canastota, N.Y., where he played soccer, basketball and baseball, “Devo” began his career at the Chillicothe (Ohio) Gazette before returning to Rochester in 1993. The St. John Fisher College graduate also covers the Rochester Rhinos soccer team and Syracuse University basketball. He founded the Canandaigua National Bank High School Sports Show, which airs Saturdays at noon on WHTK-AM (1280), in 2003. E-mail Jeff at jdiveron@DemocratandChronicle.com.Follow:@RocDevo

James Johnson has covered Section V for the Democrat and Chronicle since 1996. The St. John Fisher College and Edison graduate also has provided features and game stories tied to NASCAR, professional golf, baseball, hockey, boxing and tennis. His career began in 1995 at the Press-Sun Bulletin in Binghamton, where he helped cover Section IV high school sports. E-mail James at jamesj@DemocratandChronicle.com.Follow:@jjDandC